Video: Local news in Houston runs down confirmed facts of high school shooting

The local news in Houston is doing a fantastic job covering the facts surrounding the Sante Fe High School shooting.

As rumors and false reports circulate on the internet, the team at KHOU has put together a graphic showing the verified facts of the shooting, the unconfirmed rumors and the false reports.

Here are the confirmed facts:

The alleged shooter is in custody, and a second person of interest is also in custody. Both are said to be students.

There are six patients in the hospital.

At least eight have been killed.

An officer was injured in the shooting incident.

Students were evacuated this morning and taken to the Alamo Gym to be reunited with their parents.

Here are the unconfirmed rumors:

Report: A teacher pulled the fire alarm.

Report: An art class was targeted in the shooting.

Here is the false report:

There have been 18 school shootings in 2018. “That’s a big scary number, but that is not eighteen situations like what you’ve been watching on TV this morning,” KHOU reporter Tiffany Craig said. “That includes a variety of things, shootings around schools, even suicides. So that is a large number that has been lumped in with a number of different type scenarios, but not what you’ve been watching on TV.”

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